Energy and the healing response

The healing response is the vital means by which an organism marshals its diverse repair strategies in reaction to injury or disease. This article discusses the question of how much energy may be necessary to stimulate or 'jump start' the repair of injuries, or to reverse disease processes. The question obviously is of major clinical importance. Clinical and behavioral research validates the 'less is more' principle of energetic interactions. Convincing evidence came in 1975, when a number of scientists confirmed that extremely weak low frequency electric fields can have significant effects on important regulatory processes in the brain. These findings led to the concept of the power/frequency window, the narrow range of signal properties that will produce a maximum biological effect. This was a turning point in a lingering controversy over beneficial vs harmful environmental field effects on physiology and behavior and the applications of subtle energies in healing.